Carol’s POV
We didn’t want to stick around much longer. King Bennet agreed to get us a private plane that would take off at the empire’s airfield in a couple of hours. In the meantime, he insisted we ate something before we left.
I didn’t want to see Queen Elizabeth or Jenna again, but it didn’t seem like I had a choice. King Bennet had been kind to me and Aiden since we arrived and though I didn’t trust him at first, I was glad I was able to get to know him a little better and maybe someday even establish a real relationship with him.
He promised that he would speak to Luca about everything we had discovered. I knew the King was in denial and didn’t want to think about his best friend betraying him like this. Technically he wasn’t betraying King Bennet, he was just plotting against A
